Between the Lines

Mixed-media drawings on paper made between 2010 and 2014, and exhibited at Uncommon Ground in Chicago August - October, 2014. All of these drawings are improvisational (in surrealist terms: automatic), and without an intent to represent a subject. Inevitably, some familiarity begins to emerge.

What a pretty speech, a pity no one was listening

You'd make me laugh if it weren't prohibited.

What do we do now, now that we are happy?

Another day done with.

I missed you...and at the same time I was happy.

Isn't that a queer thing?

Thanks be to God, by my side I behold

The sleeping form of Sir Ubu the Bold.

If I were you I'd try to get that ass sitting on a throne.

One is not master of one's moods.

So you want to stay as poor as a church mouse, Mr. Ubu?

Poor boy, he would have let himself be cut in half for my sake.

How did such a crummy creature as you ever get slapped together?

by the rivers running water running fire

Do I have to repeat myself? I intend to get rich, I won't fork out a penny.

You and your landscapes!

Will night never come?

With this system, I'll soon make a fortune; then I'll kill everyone in the world, and go away.

Then all the dogs came running and they dug the dog a tomb.

Great God, I'm dead! No, I'm all right after all.

Oof! I hardly dare look back!

Look after yourself my friend. Everyone will have his turn to get eaten.

Seeing = Believing

Digital pixelations of photographs, exhibited at Uncommon Ground in Chicago in 2015, and supplemented in 2017. As I have come to in all of the work, I am interested in the degree to which an image can be abstracted beyond recognition, but still retain a strange familiarity.

Los Angeles

Indiana Dunes

Los Angeles

Chicago

San Miguel de Allende

Campo de Fiori

Boston (night)

Indiana Dunes

Regensberg

Chicago (autumn)

Portland

Chicago (night)

ORD-PDX

South Loop (night)

Ocean City

Paintings on Paper

A series of gouache paintings on paper, made between 2008-2010, and exhibited in the show PAPER at the Beverly Art Center in Chicago, 2010. All are improvisational and based on dreamed and remembered images.

Number 3 - Walking Boy

Number 13

Number 4

Number 5

Number 6

Number 10

Number 12

Number 9

Number 14

Number 25

Number 8 - Florida

Number 22 - Storm

Number 26 - Bill Evans

Number 15 - Reclining Figure

Number 2

Number 17

Number 19

Number 20

Paintings

Explorations in Oil.

Figure in Landscape

City Landscape

Red Warehouse

City Landscape

Reclining Figure

Still Life

Ireland Landscape 1

Ireland Landscape 2

Ireland Landscape 3

Dunes Beach

City Landscape

Kedzie Ramp

Meadow

Small Paintings

Studies and explorations in Oil, most of which are smaller than 8" square.